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Publiko, gi-alerto batok sa mga pekeng PDEA agents
MANILA, January 26 (PIA)–Gi-alerto sa Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) ang publiko batok sa mga nagtakoban nga ahente sa ahensiya. Ang pasidaan gihimo ni PDEA Chief Isidro Lapeña atubangan sa nadawat nilang taho kalabot sa mga nagpailang PDEA agents sa ilang komunidad ug nagtanyag sa mga ‘persons of interest’ nga matangtang sa watchlist sa mga drug personalities bugti sa salapi. Giingong pipila ka pekeng agents usab ang nangayo og ‘protection money’ gikan sa mga drug pushers. Gitataw ni Lapeña nga matangtang lamang ang pangalan sa mga drug pusher gikan sa ilang watchlist kun mabilanggo kini. Kalabot niini, gi-awhag sa PDEA ang publiko nga isumbong ang mga ingon niining insidente pinaagi sa pag-text sa PDEA 24/7 Hotlines: 09998887332, 09255737332 ug 09279150616 o sa pagtawag sa PDEA Hotlines: (02) 920-0735 and (02) 920-0736. Ning bag-o lang, nabisto usab ang pagpaningil sa pipila ka mga pekeng PDEA agents sa recruitment fee sa ahensiya.... read moreBOC, nagpagawas og sumbanan kalabot sa balikbayan box ug sa mga mamauling OFWs
MANILA, January 26 (PIA)–Nagpagawas ang Bureau of Customs (BOC) og sumbaan alang sa buhis nga ipahamtang sa mga bagaheng dalhon paule sa Pilipinas sa mga balikbayan ug mamauling overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Nakalatid sa Customs Administrative Order (CAO) No. 06-2016, nga naglangkob sa Republic Act No. 10863 o ang Customs Modernization and Tariff Act sa conditionally tax and/or duty-exempt importation sa mga personal ug household effects sa mga mobalik nga mga Pilipino gikan sa ubang nasod. Enero 9 sa dihang gipagawas ang CAO sa Official Gazette nga nahimong epektibo human milabay ang 15 ka adlaw o niadtong Enero 24. Gipasabot sa BOC nga ang mga “returning resident” usa ka Filipino national, apil ang asawa ug mga anak nga nagpuyo og unom ka buwan sa ubang nasod ug pabalik na sa Pilipinas. Samtang ang mga ‘retur¬ning OFWs’ kadtong adunay gikoptan nga valid passport nga gipagawas sa Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) ug gi-sertipikahan sa Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) o sa Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) alang sa mga overseas employment purposes. Giingong mahimong isulod usab ang pipila ka household appliances, machi¬nery o sports equipment sa ilang mga bagahe.... read more
Collaborate, communicate’ —PH on the future of ASEAN
KUALA LUMPUR—As ASEAN celebrates its 50th founding anniversary, 2017 marks an opportune time to reflect on what ASEAN has achieved over the past five decades and what it seeks to accomplish ahead. Speaking at the ASEAN@50 Conference in Kuala Lumpur on 4 August before an assembly of audience representing various stakeholders, ASEAN 2017 Economic Ministers chairman and Philippine Trade Secretary Ramon Lopez said that collaboration and communication are two essential elements to keep ASEAN moving. “The region has to focus on two Cs, Collaboration and Communication. By engaging multi-stakeholders, ASEAN develops a win-win solution in ensuring that economic opportunities will be equitably felt by all ASEAN citizens,” he said. Since its inception in 1967, the 10-member regional organization has transformed into a global economic powerhouse, with a population of 622 million and has become one of the world’s fastest growing investment destinations. ASEAN’s total trade increased by USD 700 billion between 2007 and 2015, with intra-ASEAN trade comprising the largest share. In 2015, ASEAN attracted USD 121 billion of FDI with intra-ASEAN constituting the largest share of inflows. . Sec. Lopez said that ASEAN should aim to communicate its programs and priorities to the ASEAN citizens, providing them with the right platform to know how they can contribute to the region’s growth story. “Our communication must be sustained and intensified if we want to reap the benefits of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC), working towards a deeper regional integration in 2025,” he added. The trade chief made reference to the ASEAN 2025: Forging Ahead Together as a forward-looking roadmap to...Google Apps for SME – Get It Free
Google Apps (http://www.google.com/apps) is a free email and collaboration service provided by Google for small organizations. The email system is based on Gmail, a lightweight and dynamic web application. The collaboration platform includes shared documents, chat, calendar and other useful software. Google Apps has been around for a few years and was a free service for all domains until early 2009. Now, it is free only for domains with 50 or less accounts. If the domain owner needs more users, he has to subscribe to the Premium service. Educational institutions, however, can still get Google Apps for free for an unlimited number of students. Google is able to give this service for free because it is able to earn revenues from the ads that it displays along with the email application. The good thing is that the ads shown are not obtrusive and will not distract the user. Also, the free edition is subsidized by the premium edition which includes more power features as well as a 25GB storage space for emails. SMEs in Bohol should take advantage of Google Apps because it allows them to have their very own email name on their own domain name. For marketing and communicating with vendors and customers, an email address like info@mycompany.com looks more prestigious and professional than info_mycompany@yahoo.com or info_mycompany@msn.com. And why not? It is free and configuration is included in Auza.Net’s website development and hosting service. Email Auza.Net at info@auza.net or call our sales office at...Local News/ Bohol Balita
Bohol towns pool P2.85M for storms victims – LMP
NO one is so poor so as to have nothing to give. Even poverty saddled towns here in Bohol dipped from its scant coffers to fill their relief bag of cash and contribute to the estimated P2.85 million fund for victims of storms Ondoy and Pepeng. Mayor Roberto Salinas reported during the recent League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP) meeting hosted by municipality of Bilar that about P1.6M has already been hand carried by Governor Erico Aumentado to the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) last week. If the towns respond as we proposed with our equitable formula, we would be generating at least P2.85 million from the LMP alone, he said. With the LMP still collecting the cash assistance from the towns, Salinas told his mayors that the formula the league devised is just to put up a common guide for the amount a town can give. He added, a town can definitely give more. As to the formula for the financial relief, he said the LMP decided that first to third class towns put in P100K each, while fourth to sixth class towns can give P50K. Last week too, according to records from the Office of the Provincial Treasurer through Eustaquio Socorin, the towns of Buenavista, Calape, Carmen, Jagna, Talibon, Tubigon, Ubay and President Carlos P. Garcia each gave P100K. Among them, lower classified President town of Carlos P. Garcia gave more that its category. Towns who gave P50 thousand each are the towns of Alburquerque, Alicia, Baclayon, Balilihan, Candijay, Catigbian and Clarin, Cortes, Danao, Mabini, Maribojoc, Panglao, Pilar, Sagbayan, and Valencia. Inabanga initially gave...Abatan dev’t council vows to to unite against mining claim
THE Abatan River Management and Development Council (ARMDC) assured it would ascertain that any decision involving development affecting their common river resource would emanate from the people. ARMDC Chairman and Catigbian Mayor Roberto Salinas told the media in a press conference for the Visayaswide Local and Regional Economic Development Forum here a5t the MetroCenter Hotel that their next step in the Abatan cluster is to come up with a river code that would detail the policies an investor will have to follow to use the river for their investments. The LRED Forum took on Accelerating Economic Development through the Cluster Approach as a theme. The forum also opened up a venue for Abatan River Cluster towns in Bohol and the South Maqueda Bay cluster in Southern Leyte to be the development planners’ focus for generating models for cluster development replicas for the country, explains Department of Trade and Industry Regional Director Asteria Caberte. The ARMDC is undertaking the development and promotion of the eco-tourism potential of the common resource shared by Cortes, Maribojoc, Antequera, Balilihan and Catigbian as a ladder for economic development in the area. All these initiatives are bound by a common theme: environment protection and conservation through participative and sustainable eco-tourism, Salinas added. The ARMDC believes that only by participative cluster development can they be assured of pooling common resources to make scant government development funds go farther. Salinas reacted to the information that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has granted a mining concession in the mountains belonging to the Abatan watershed. Another source bared that in the apparent belief of accelerated development,...Police change news blazes across Bohol
THE blaze of police transformation spreads here as the local cops led by PSSUpt Edgardo Ingking vowed never to succumb to political pressures hindering the growth of the culture of reform to make police render more capable, effective and credible service. During the culmination of the 11th leg of the Torch Run Relay, Ingking said that the transformation torch would be the beacon that carries the light signifying the transformation program the Philippine National Police (PNP) has to undergo to make itself an organization that would compete globally. The Transformation Torch, which traveled all over Bohol, according to reports came into Bohol last October 12 and was passed to every station to bring the beacon of transformation across the country, police sources explained. From a sagging perception and a performance that scraped rock bottom, top leaders of the police organization has to push for the reforms that would unseat abusive, arrogant and unfit cops and ease them out of public service. With police inefficiency reports hurting most of the men in uniform, the local officers welcome the move knowing that only with the reforms can the police reclaim its rightful seat as the people’s servants and protectors. Briefing over three hundred men and women of the Bohol police manning town stations, Ingking, who claims the charges are only examples of the threats every police officer has to face and overcome to realize the real transformation also cited highlights and gains of the integrated police transformation which started in 2005. During the briefing which took him an hour and a few minutes, Ingking shared to the police the vision of...Drug incidence in Central Visayas declines
In Central Visayas, drug incidence has decined. This is due to the aggressive measures employed by both the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA-7) and the Police Regional Office (PRO-7) against drug peddlers. PDEA-7 information officer III David Mark Maramba bared that apart from strengthening intelligence network to ensure the apprehension of drug peddlers in coordination wit the police, they are also going high on their information and education drive against the use of illegal drugs. From January until at present, the PDEA-7 has conducted 425 operations and arrested 596 personalities. No figures however were given by both the PDEA-7 and the PRO-7 that attributed to the decrease in drug incidence. (PIA) Click here for full...Maribojoc hosts SUTA Bohol MDG campaign
AT LEAST a thousand people and at least a hundred more cultural workers would take the pledge this Friday October 16, as Maribojoc hosts this year’s cultural campaign, Stand Up and Take Action (SUTA) against poverty in line with the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals. The pledge, which would also be taken by millions all over the world from October 16-18 would engage the people to press their leaders and countries to focus on the UN agreements stated in the MDGs. In cooperation with the National commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the Lihok Bisaya movement, Maribojoc would be Bohol’s main hub of the intensive campaign of mobilizing people through the arts and culture to pursue the various MDGs. With culture and the arts known for its power to unleash creativity and productivity, communicate development themes and contribute to over-all social transformation, the campaign here provides a model of harnessing the local heritage and the arts for upgrading the quality of life in disadvantaged communities, said Lihok Bisaya artistic director Lugardo Labad. Lihok Bisaya is a 5-year program recently launched by the NCCA Visayan members as strategy to address the issues of Poverty and respond to the challenges of the MDGs through the creation of sustainable community-based creative industries, he explained. Labad adds that artists and cultural workers from the Visayas, led by NCCA Committee members from Heritage, Arts, Traditional Communities and Cultural Dissemination facilitate the events envisioned as a multi-stakeholder strategy generating synergy among local communities, governance, business and the artists sectors in the creation of indigenous local products and services reflective of the MDGs. Launched...National News
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